Hypertext Webster Gateway: "whopper"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Whapper \Whap"per\, Whopper \Whop"per\, n. [See {Whap}.]
Something uncommonly large of the kind; something
astonishing; -- applied especially to a bold lie. [Colloq.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Whopper \Whop"per\, n. [Cf. {Whapper}.]
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
whopper
n 1: a gross untruth
2: something especially big or impressive of its kind [syn: {whacker}]
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